ESPN’s industry-leading coverage of college football continues throughout the postseason beginning Saturday, Dec. 14 through Saturday, Jan 4, with 33 Bowl Season games on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2, including 17 ESPN Events owned and operated bowls. Bowl Season combines with ESPN’s coverage of the new, expanded era of the College Football Playoff – kicking off Dec. 20-21 with First Round games on campus sites – to make ESPN the home for college football’s postseason.

Bowl Season on ESPN platforms kicks off with ESPN Events’ Cricket Celebration Bowl (noon ET, ABC) as Jackson State and South Carolina State face off in the National Championship for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which also hosts the College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T on Monday, Jan. 20.

ABC also features four additional bowl games this winter. Saturday, Dec. 28 is highlighted by the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl with Boston College and Nebraska kicking off at noon, followed by the Pop-Tarts Bowl featuring No. 18 Iowa State and No. 13 Miami at 3:30 p.m. and the Valero Alamo Bowl at 7:30 p.m. spotlighting a Big 12 battle between No. 17 BYU and No. 23 Colorado. On Tuesday, Dec. 31, ABC airs its final bowl game of the season with the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl at 3 p.m. on New Year’s Eve with No. 15 South Carolina and No. 20 Illinois going toe to toe.

The first of ESPN’s 25 bowl games, the IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl kicks off at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 14, the opening day of Bowl Season. Leading into the South Alabama/Western Michigan matchups is the Heisman Trophy Ceremony presented by Nissan at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 26-28 highlights 11 games in three days, a holiday helping of Bowl Season play on the platform. ESPN’s extensive Bowl Season slate concludes in the Queen City with the Duke’s Mayo Bowl on Friday, Jan. 3 at 7:30 p.m. featuring Minnesota and Virginia Tech.

ESPN2 hosts a trio of battles, including the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl (Georgia Southern vs. Sam Houston) on Thursday, Dec. 19, the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl featuring Tulane and Florida on Friday, Dec. 20, and the Bahamas Bowl Presented by Atlantis Resorts on Saturday, Jan. 4, with Buffalo and Liberty returning to the newly renovated Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium in Nassau after a one-year absence.

New Year’s Eve delivers two of the most celebrated brands in college football to kick off the last day of 2024. Three-time CFP Champion No. 11 Alabama and last year’s National Champion Michigan face off at noon in the ReliaQuest Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. The Crimson Tide/Wolverines clash is set for ESPN, ESPN Radio and ESPN Deportes on Tuesday, Dec. 31.

Capital One Bowl Mania is Back!
Fans can once again play Capital One Bowl Mania, ESPN’s classic bowl-season pick’em game in which fans select the winner of every FBS bowl game, plus the FCS Celebration Bowl.

• Capital One Bowl Mania includes three contest modes: Standard, the original pick’em game that awards 10 points for every correct pick; Spread, which requires fans to make their picks against the point spread for each game; and Confidence, where fans rank their picks and earn more points according to their level of confidence in each selection.
• Fans with the most points in any of the three contest modes can win $20,000 in prizes, and any fan who finishes with a perfect entry – picking all 47 bowl games correctly – can win up to $1 million.
• The Capital One Bowl Mania brand surrounds and promotes all 33 non-CFP bowl games across ESPN platforms.

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